“Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.”
— Russell Brand
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Author: SS
My good friends tell me I'm genuine, kind, intelligent, wise, and funny. But I wouldn't take their word for it, they're mainly idiots (an example of me trying to be funny).
"I contain multitudes"
- Walt Whitman
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Believe the opposite – Alain de Botton
“You learn so much by daring to explore what it would feel like to believe the opposite of what one does.”
– Alain de Botton
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Known knowns – Donald Rumsfeld
“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.”
– Donald Rumsfeld
“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
– Gilles Deleuze
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26 letters – Ayden Foster
“It amazes me how 26 letters can be comprised into hundreds of words and arranged into thousands of sentences that speak to our souls in millions of ways.”
– Ayden Foster
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
― Albert Einstein
“We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.”
– Stephen M.R. Covey
“You couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the directions were on the bottom.”
– Unknown
“When things go wrong, consider this as just another splinter in your arse as you slide down the bannister of life”
– Toby J. McCartney
“I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it— but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“…I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
– Francis Bacon
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
— Aristotle
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Character and habits – Stephen Covey
“Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.”
— Stephen Covey
“When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.”
– Prince Philip